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The Paper Millionaire, by some Arab-turned-Englishman named Roger Shashoua. He sat
Tom Wolfe • A Man in Full: A Novel
Murray says we are fragile creatures surrounded by a world of hostile facts. Facts threaten our happiness and security. The deeper we delve into the nature of things, the looser our structure may seem to become.
Don DeLillo • White Noise
Wallace’s cruise ship piece was about the price of failing to choose well.
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
Both in urban and psychological space, Schulman witnessed “the replacement of complex realities with simplistic ones,” a process leading to a kind of social monoculture.
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
He was the ultra-hedgehog, obsessed with only one truth: If people feel optimistic about where they live, details don’t matter.
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
This low-key, ambient paranoia—this conviction that no place was secure and that any moment could tip into cataclysm—was a new feature of my consciousness, but it was lodged so firmly that I worried it was here to stay.